Today we’re pleased to announce our second enterprise driver release of the year, AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2, that continues to feature the quality, performance, security features, image quality, simplicity, and innovative features that our professional graphics users have come to expect. Read on to learn the highlights of what our new 20.Q2 enterprise driver delivers.

Improved Productivity with Year-Over-Year Performance Improvements With our quarterly enterprise driver releases, we are continuously optimizing performance in every release, in part thanks to the close collaborations we have with leading ISV application developers. That means if you want to boost your productivity and turbocharge your workflows, it pays to update to our latest driver. For example, Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 is up to 14% faster in the geomean of the SPECviewperf 13 benchmark viewsets than last year’s 19.Q2 driver1 and you can expect to see additional performance improvements over the lifetime of your Radeon Pro graphics card2.

Rethink Power Efficiency with Intelligent Power Management Our driver’s intelligent power usage management enables select AMD Radeon Pro graphics cards to choose the optimal power for different professional application workflows, and that doesn’t just include in manufacturing applications like SOLIDWORKS but also when using creative applications like Adode Photoshop. When using our AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 driver, the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card used up to 18% less system power when running Photoshop than the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card using the NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver3.

Radeon Pro is Designed for Multitasking Today’s creative workflows very rarely involve working with one application at a time – you’re constantly switching between different applications and doing tasks in the foreground while you wait for more demanding tasks, such as rendering, to finish in the background. When it comes to multitasking AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise and AMD Radeon Pro graphics together deliver superior performance to our competition. When using SOLIDWORKS and CPU rendering with KeyShot 8 in the background, AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card when using Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 provides up to 2.4x the average performance versus the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card using the NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver4.

The same computer equipped with the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card using AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 consumes up to 18% less average system power the PugetBench for Photoshop benchmark compared to the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card using the NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver.

Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of April 20, 2020, on the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card and AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card with the NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver, on a test system comprising an Intel Core i9-9900K, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, Asus ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming motherboard with BIOS version 12.0.22.1310 at default settings, 512 GB Intel 760p SSD, Windows 10 Pro November 2019 Update. Power was measured using the power using a Kill-A-Watt P3 P4400 wattmeter over the timespan of PugetBench for Adobe Photoshop v. 0.8 beta, commercial version. Scores are based on AMD internal lab measurements and may vary. PugetBench is from Puget Systems. RPW-312

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First of all I want to thank the Radeon Pro Team for their efforts to give us the best possible experience with Radeon Pro Hardware and Software and special thanks to Mr fsadough for your exemplary and generous attitude by helping us in Support Forums

With the intention of improving our experience as users let me suggest better and easier access to information on how we can use and configure our Radeon Pro / FirePro GPUs and Radeon Pro Software respecting the free choice of OS:

Unfortunately there is no quick or easy access to information on how we can use and configure those features, no official and necessary documentation linked nor posted in the web page support.

I understand and assume that the Radeon Pro / FirePro segment is dedicated to Enterprises and Professionals with IT support or for very advanced Users and Microsoft / Windows dictates the forward.

I'm not an employee of an Enterprise with IT support, neither Computer Professional, I am a User who has chosen Radeon Pro for the high quality Hardware / Software offered by AMD and IMO alsowe the non-advanced Linux Users deserve easy access to all documentation and information as customers, then I ask:

Wait a second, you're not using a workstation GPU, and you're posting your concern in a enterprise workstation driver post? Now i don't have any problem with that, because i use Enterprise drivers on my RX 570, they seem to work better than normal drivers right now. But i am curious, have you tried installing Adrenalin drivers ?

I can confirm that there are issues with a few games that crash using the 20 series enterprise drivers, which is why i don't use them, i use Enterprise 19.Q4.1 for my RX 570 which are way better. But try installing the latest Adrenalin drivers or 20.4.1.

If you prefer to use enterprise drivers, use the 19.Q4.1 and see how they work.